Through intimate forms of encounter, using such tools as pain-pleasure, bondage, and role-play, leather can bring a shift of conciousness and a new vision of the self. This innovative book pioneered in sensitively exploring and celebrating leathersexuality. As relevant today as when it was written 20 years ago, Urban Aboriginals is an intimate view of the gay male leather community. Within its pages, author Geoff Mains explores the spritual, sexual, emotional, cultural and physiological aspects that make this "scene" one of the most prominent yet misunderstood subcultures in our society. Geoff Mains was a sweet, intelligent, articulate, and wonderful man who cared passionately about the leather community. He wanted to make sure that its accomplishments would be remembered and its wild beauty understood. Urban Aboriginals resulted from his love and is an enduring part of his legacy. It is a unique cultural study, and a priceless document of a now vanished time. --Gayle Rubin, Ph.D., author and anthropologist I met Geoff Mains in the early 1980s. We shared a common vision: fusion of tribal subcultures "on a journey marked by fetish and mana, shaman, ritual and trance". Urban Aboriginals was way ahead of its time for clearly defining a significant transformation in Western Culture. I feel Geoff would have enjoyed seeing his blueprint for ecstatic exploration live on and blossom even further in the still Apollonian world of the 21st Century. --Fakir Musafar, Father of the Modern Primitive Movement In Urban Aboriginals, Geoff Mains pioneered our understanding of the connections between the neurochemistry of pleasure seeking and radical sexuality. But the book is more..... .so much more. Its stories and vignettes take us personally into the experience of different old guard "scenes" with intimacy, intensity, range and depth not found anywhere else. Simply required reading. --Guy Baldwin, M.S., author and psychotherapist Urban Aboriginals ranks high on the list of books that belong in any library of kinky writing. Geoff's contribution to our history, our community, and our understanding of ourselves has withstood the test of time. This book, important -- classic, and a must-read -- is one that makes a pre-eminent contribution to each and every one of us. Urban Aboriginals was the first works to teach me the meaning of real SM, a lesson it holds for all who will read it. --Jack Rinella, author

    In books such as the S/M classic Mr. Benson, Preston explored power exchange in all its battered beauty. The sex stories in I Once Had a Master combine a hard-core sensibility with rare psychological insight.In "Authenticity," a top turns down two fawning bottoms in full leather regalia in favor of the sweet-faced novice who offers genuine surrender. In "Pedro," a college boy has a summer affair with a truck driver and finds himself flirting with other men just to provoke his lover’s rage. The lonely bottom in "Interludes" develops his body to perfection, then seeks out the Daddy who will cherish this gift.

    

    Cardinal de Lubac gives us one of the most lucid expositions on the meaning of grace and its relationship to the order of nature.

    Extraordinary use of dialog makes for strong character development. Story arcs arouse interest and build dramatic intensity. Genet-like literary merit drives relationship story beyond testosterone. Psycholology addresses the nature of manhood rituals at the end of the Millenium. You don't actually have to be intro rough sex yourself to enjoy this exquisitely crafted novel of initiation into bikes, leather, S&M, and man-to-man sex that pulls no punches when Denny Sargent (18) begins the rites of passage all men must courageously endure to seal their special bonding. Drummer, the leather reader's bible: "Fritscher's writing works spectacularly". The Advocate: "Jack Fritscher writes wonderful books". In groups in LA, NY, & SF, Leather Blues is required reading for men and women experiencing, after their First Coming Out into sex, their Second Coming Out into leather lite and Sensual/Mutual (sm) pleasures This is one Bedtime Story to keep under your bed, because the text does what erotica is supposed to do This legendary story has been serialized in Drummer, Man2Man, and Power Play magazines. Original cover drawing by famous NY artist, REX.